Character Background and Description Tamati, often affectionately called Ma or Tama, is a Maori woman who lives in the lower class. She is a seamstress who creates bold and colorful patterns from the recycled material she gets. Her supplies are eclectic compared to other seamstresses because she will take any fabric she finds interesting, regardless of if it matches her other stock. She adapts anything to her style, which often includes different shades of a color (usually in contrasting patterns) into lines of geometric patterns, or shredding and re-weaving into a completely new fabric.
Tamati's shop is a warm mess of fabric pieces intermixed with her sewing machines, and is built out of her house. Her shop is much smaller than some of the commercial places she used to work for, but she prefers the intimacy of people coming specifically for her work instead of just needing clothes. She was able to expand to the living space beneath her home when her neighbor passed away and left her the rights to the property after a long friendship. Her shop assistants are a young couple Trinh (a Vietnamese woman) and Yu-Bin (a Korean woman), who hide their relationship to the outside society by appearing as just friends and coworkers. They live in the bedroom adjoined to the shop, and Tamati keeps her home upstairs. She prefers to deal in trades than credits for her wares, and prepares big meals for down-on-their-luck individuals who visit the warm shop.
She is shorter in stature, with darker skin and traditional Maori facial tattoos. She wears bright colors and weaves colorful thread into her intricate braids. Her friend a few streets down makes jewelry from metal pieces too small to use in mods, and Tamati has acquired quite the collection. She is a warm and caring woman, who remembers almost every story her clients share with her. She is quick to notice when something has changed, or if someone has been struggling.
Name: Tamati
Age: 50
Sex: Female
Profession: Seamstress
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Disposition: detail-oriented, reliable, caring
Character Background and Description
Tamati, often affectionately called Ma or Tama, is a Maori woman who lives in the lower class. She is a seamstress who creates bold and colorful patterns from the recycled material she gets. Her supplies are eclectic compared to other seamstresses because she will take any fabric she finds interesting, regardless of if it matches her other stock. She adapts anything to her style, which often includes different shades of a color (usually in contrasting patterns) into lines of geometric patterns, or shredding and re-weaving into a completely new fabric.
Tamati's shop is a warm mess of fabric pieces intermixed with her sewing machines, and is built out of her house. Her shop is much smaller than some of the commercial places she used to work for, but she prefers the intimacy of people coming specifically for her work instead of just needing clothes. She was able to expand to the living space beneath her home when her neighbor passed away and left her the rights to the property after a long friendship. Her shop assistants are a young couple Trinh (a Vietnamese woman) and Yu-Bin (a Korean woman), who hide their relationship to the outside society by appearing as just friends and coworkers. They live in the bedroom adjoined to the shop, and Tamati keeps her home upstairs. She prefers to deal in trades than credits for her wares, and prepares big meals for down-on-their-luck individuals who visit the warm shop.
She is shorter in stature, with darker skin and traditional Maori facial tattoos. She wears bright colors and weaves colorful thread into her intricate braids. Her friend a few streets down makes jewelry from metal pieces too small to use in mods, and Tamati has acquired quite the collection. She is a warm and caring woman, who remembers almost every story her clients share with her. She is quick to notice when something has changed, or if someone has been struggling.